Bilingual Brain

by Arturo E. Hernandez

Cases of language loss and recovery bring up an intriguing paradox. If two languages are stored in the brain, how can it be that a person can lose one of them, but not the other, and then gain one back without relearning it? The traditional models of how a language is represented in the brain suggest that languages can become inaccessible, even though they are not entirely lost. As the author demonstrates through fascinating cases, stress--whether...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199828113
• ISBN13: 9780199828111
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"